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  • 4th Dec, 2009 at 9:17 PM
RDA
#1 Sky box seems to have been fixed- the guy came this afternoon. Thought it'd solve the problem by swapping old box for snazzy new one. Only once he did that although his gizmo said there was a strong signal- the set up page said unlocked and no signal. He tried 2 other boxes but now he wasn't even getting a picture! Yet my box was working when he arrived. Went up the ladder to the dish and replaced some widget up there and plugged my old box in again and voila- signal okay. It sure had him confused - said he'd never had that before- the signal tester saying signal and yet no picture on the screen. So, because it turned it to be a dish problem I didn't get a new box! Never mind- I'll upgrade to Sky+ next year before Central goes digital and then I'll get an HD TV as well- after all I've only had this TV since 1997...

#2 more tweaking at the osteopath- hip loads better now but still some tense muscles in there. Also put the TENS machine pads round my old ACL knee, which got bruised the other day when I went splat, and has been going scroopy click when going upstairs for several weeks now.

#3 Boughted myself a Dell Inspiron 545 desktop Windows 7 computer online tonight! I upped some of the processor and memory and their special offer was to upgrade the HD to 640GB- swoon! I think my current 2002 vintage pooter has 80GB....and I upgraded that 18 months ago from the original 20GB...*dies of laughter*

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RL tweaking me for the last 2 weeks....

  • 30th Nov, 2009 at 7:15 PM
what wld Jack Bauer do?
Things have been odd for the last week or two
#1 I broke a tooth and had to wait a week and a half to get it fixed (today- so far, so good).
#2 SKY box not getting signal for over 12 hours or so, then whilst waiting for engineer to call and tell me when they're coming- it sorts itself out and is absolutely fine all weekend. Naturally tonight when I get home it's gone again for 6 hours, then back again. Called for engineer again.
#3 Hip pain then it goes over a day or so. Then last Sunday was in agony all day and limped to work on the Monday and then the doctors, got pain pills, then it subsides- sciatica? Osteopath on Friday pokes and prods and get a massage and then the TENS machine- says a muscle spasm. At least I am walking properly now.
#4 temperature sensor on central heating boiler on the fritz- as in, sometimes hot water or luke warm or cold! Now fixed via British Gas engineer.
#5 due to no reliable water/heating- had to cancel BF's visit over the weekend.


Good news- off to Aged P's this weekend and then the Steampunk exhibition in Oxford www.steampunkmuseumexhibition.blogspot.com/- Wol's staying over so we can visit a few other Museums- Ashmolean and the Pitt Rivers and maybe a walking tour- assuming none of my limbs fall off in the mean time!

ETA 2nd Dec
#2 a- SKY engineer due Friday!
#6 slipped in the dark in some mud tonight on my way to a work thing at 7pm- skinned palms and knees-I bruise easily, so that'll be fun then....

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Mumblings from the corner...

  • 25th Feb, 2009 at 9:36 PM
jack gate
The Shep Whump30 is not happening at present- I have  the remaining words on sheets of paper with balloons and lines and scribbles coming from them in a creative sort of way--but actually writing the darn stuff <sighs>... insanely busy at work, away last weekend at Redemption con '09 in Coventry (Bab5, Dr Who, Blake's 7 and other cult media/fan  loadsa fun), other things I do getting in the way- committee meeting tomorrow night ( so I also have to do the agenda and write up the minutes), away up North for Quarto bookarts meet in Sunderland on Saturday- that's at least a 14 hour round trip..(by train). So maybe I'll get something done on the train ( yay train!fic) but I'm more than likely to be asleep as I set off at 0611...Sunday I really should be doing some stuff for an exhibition, next weekend up at the boyf's in KS...

Obviously I am just not organised enough to set the time aside for it- it doesn't help that I stare at the word and can't decide which way to go with it for fic and whumpage...

I think I spend far too much time reading other people's fic  than writing my own...

On the phone/broadband provider front- it turns out my email/website etc will stay exactly the same it's just the provider names and their website that will change to Pipex....so no need to rush around changeing everything thank goodness.

changing email provider...snarl...

  • 16th Dec, 2008 at 7:13 PM
cute roo
Got a letter recently from my phone and broadband provider saying that they are moving to their sister company Pipex. Only when I email them to ask 'does this mean that I have to change email and webpage addresses?' do they actually say -yes, but that I'd have to contact the sister company on how to access them. [I only asked because Virgin people kept their NTL addys afterwards]  At least I have until the end of February 2009...sighs...and wonders how many people I have to contact and all those webpages....whimper....

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burble

  • 21st Sep, 2008 at 9:20 PM
cute roo
Okay, so I am still here-

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